The venoms of poisonous snakes contain (among other things) a class of enzymes known as phospholipases, enzymes that cause the breakdown of phospholipids

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Muscle contraction depends on two processes that consume enormous amounts of ATP: 

1. Filament sliding, driven by the ATPase of the myosin

2. Ca2+ pumping, driven by the Ca2+ ATPase

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β oxidation 

A major function of the oxidation reactions is the breakdown of fatty acid molecules.

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The current record holder is the gene Dscam in Drosophila. Alternative splicing of its 95 exons could potentially produce more than 38,000 kinds of proteins from this single gene.

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Arachidonic acid and some eicosanoid derivatives.

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Myosins have 

Motor head domain

Lever-arm neck domain

Cargo-binding tail domain